Literary New York . Some Writers of To-Day fence, and a gateway not at all inkeeping with the modern appear-ance of the street. Behind the tallfence is a bit of greensward, and be-yond that a house quaintly unusualin appearance, seeming to shrink fromsight In the shadows cast about is where Richard Watson Gilderat one time lived, where Charles DeKay organized the Authors Club,and where the Society of AmericanArtists was formed. Beyond Union Square there is inEighteenth house num-bered 121 Matthews,lived for fourteenor more years,where he wrotemany of his books,
Literary New York . Some Writers of To-Day fence, and a gateway not at all inkeeping with the modern appear-ance of the street. Behind the tallfence is a bit of greensward, and be-yond that a house quaintly unusualin appearance, seeming to shrink fromsight In the shadows cast about is where Richard Watson Gilderat one time lived, where Charles DeKay organized the Authors Club,and where the Society of AmericanArtists was formed. Beyond Union Square there is inEighteenth house num-bered 121 Matthews,lived for fourteenor more years,where he wrotemany of his books,and where was heldthe first meeting toorganize the Amer-ican Copyright. Horace Greeteys tioma Literary New York League. It was Professor Matthewswho gave the dinner at which theunique society known as the Kinsmencame into being, at the Florenceon the same street at number 105,—an apartment house in which EllenGlasgow, Elizabeth Bisland, andEdgar Salt us have made their homes,and in which the widow of HermanMelville Is now living. In near-by Nineteenth Street isstill standing No. 35, a house whereHorace Greeley lived, with WilliamAllen Butler, thei .author of Nothingto Wear, for a* nexkdoor block? far the/ on is the bigoffice buildibg irtiere Dr. JosiahStrong wrote rftost of Our Country,and where Hamilton W. Mabie has astudy in the editorial rooms of TheOutlook. A few steps farther inTwenty-second Street, at No. 33,Stephen Crane wrote part of TheRed Badge of Courage and worked246 Some Writers of To-Day on the daily newspapers. Close byin Fifth Avenue is the publishinghouse where the critic and essayist,William Crary Brownell, author ofFren
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